Improvement in band-cutting forks



D. ARNOLD.

Band-Cutting Forks.

NO. 133,396. Patented Nov.26,1872.

AM PHOT0-LITHOGRAFHIC CUNYKOSBORNES P506555) STATES ?ATE1\TT OFFIoE.

DAVID ARNOLD, OF CLYDE, OHIO.

IMPROVEMENT IN BAND-CUTTING FORKS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 133,396, dated November 26, 1872.-

I To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, DAVID ARNOLD, of Clyde, in the county of Huron and State of Ohio, have invented a new and valuable Improvement in Band-Cutting Forks; and I do hereby declare that the following is afull, clear, and exact description of the construction and operation of the same, reference being bad to the annexed drawingmaking a part of this specification, and to the letters and figures of reference marked thereon.

The figure of the drawing is a representa: tion of a perspective View of my invention.-

This invention has relation to certain improvements in the band-cutting fork for which Letters Patent of the United States were granted to me April 23, 1872; and the novelty consists in the construction and arrangement of the band-holding fork, the tines of which lie behind the main fork; and also in the construction and arrangement of an addi-- tional tine or guard, lying in front of said main fork, all substantially as hereinafter more fully described.

A in the drawing represents the handle, B the ferrule, and G O the prongs, of a pitchfork. D is a V'shaped knife, whose shank a passes through an ear, h, that projects from the ferrule, or from the band 0 encircling it. In the same ear is also held the shank e of a small two-pronged fork, E, which shank is bent and extended back between the prongs G, and behind them terminates in two short prongs. F represents a single tine or prong, which depends in front of the knife. D, and has its shank e bent and extended back, and thence upward through the ear 71 where, together with the shanks a 0 it is secured by means of a set-screw, I.

When a fork made substantially as described-that is to say, provided with the parts 0 D E-Fis applied to a sheaf in aposition to bring theknife at right angles across the band et h, and secured by set-screwI, substantially as specified.

'2. The tine F, in combination with the prongs O, knife D, and fork E, substantially as specified.

In testimony that I claim the above I have hereunto subscribed my name in the presence of two witnesses.

DAVID ARNOLD.

Witnesses:

PHILIP N. SCHUYLER, EBENEZER 0. MERRY. 

